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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Don't choose any pattern of numbers ...unless that pattern of numbers wins...
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Around the age of 10 as well, a parent asked me if I was excited about the new PlayStation and if I wanted one for Christmas. I made it painfully clear that I would still much prefer a SNES, and wasn't so bothered about a PlayStation.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Having a broadly diverse team making hiring decisions might be a more useful solution.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> There is always a slight time lag in the R number of a matter of weeks ah ok: that's not what I understand from how governments are reporting it. My understanding is that it's the (best estimate) of how virus cases are spread
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Not quite. R tells you: the graph is likely to keep going up (or will peak and go down). Policy makers should care about this more.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I read that more than half of new bikes sold in the Netherlands (around half a million per year) are e-bikes. It has become more difficult to underestimate the popularity of e-bikes, now that I get overtaken by a steady stream of pensioners
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I have found it consistently disappointing that the BBC has been putting out UK government statistics and interpretations uncritically - as we see (for example) in the headline here.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Can I give you some feedback? > Can you change that? I also find these very blunt - this is what I would say if the person I was exerting my authority and the person I was talking to really had no choice, but I was being polite abou
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Wikipedia article makes it clear was an uptick in observed/known voice chatter. That the public might be likely to observe more thoroughly makes it less of a coincidence.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Considering that leaf-cutter ants are well-known to humans (I've seen them in a museum in Amsterdam), I'd say it is surprising that we haven't noticed this before.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
So that's saved them 5 developer-days of work? They can afford to send a Switch. It would be a nice gesture.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Why are you characterising asking for money for (open source) work as begging? That doesn't seem right.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Summed up, I'm currently saving just over 11% on all the groceries + ~7% on fuel cost by sharing that information with 5 companies. I don't think this is the exchange you are making, though. The money you save here is no diff
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by learnstats2 6y ago
This appears to be a list of things that we have no reason to bother to observe in non-mammals. I've heard most of them said to be unique to humans. (the most insightful comment in the article is e.g. "There is very little data on
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by learnstats2 6y ago
This suggestion is literally colonialism.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> partly via suppressing competition and exploiting labour
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by learnstats2 6y ago
This example is a specific benefit, but not one that Amazon has provided. It's a benefit that online shopping has provided, which Amazon has monopolized, partly via suppressing competition and exploiting labour (which society has to pa
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The fact that Bezos can get incredibly richer this year, while other people struggle harder is symptomatic of a system that allows inequality - it's not that Bezos getting richer in itself causes inequality. Bezos's wealth is alre
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by learnstats2 6y ago
A better HN title would be: "Parental income and later risk of developing a mental disorder"
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Aren't those the same? If you raised everyone's income above a minimum threshold, that would reduce income inequality by almost any measure. Gini coefficient (the most commonly used inequality measure) effectively uses logarithms
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Long division perhaps does teach you how to follow a complex algorithm by hand, but it's not at all necessary for the math curriculum at any stage from K-12 up to university. It's somewhat out of fashion because a good sense of nu
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I think student-led education is a useful model: where students have a say in what they find important and in their own education. (This applies for all children, not only for adolescent boys) The curriculum has too much influence from adul
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I'd note that "strong writing skills" here means being able to communicate information fluently, not having perfect grammar and spelling. Those skills are not always in alignment - I've worked happily with great written
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I've noticed that people whose jobs I would describe as "appear busy" have really upped their game around arranging unnecessary Zoom meetings (where nothing comparable was necessary before) - to appear busy while remote.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
What I mean is: "Both Willy [a wizard] and Harry are required to work out the exact nature of the main task of the contest which they both achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers, in order to discover how to rescue human h
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> I bet I would get a call from Disney's lawyers. Disney's lawyers are famously litigious. I'm not clear that they would win a case here. (Although they might have success with this HN comment as evidence) The Adventures o
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Hm, these are high-level concepts so it's hard. Duality in mathematics is in general a principle that objects in one category can be mapped onto another category (and vice versa), that two objects are reflections of each other in some
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> encourage healthy people to seroconvert It's almost never a good medical strategy to intentionally get ill. Pox parties are extremely dangerous.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> I did a lot of sincere public apologizing If you generally live by your own values, and act according to them, then (in my opinion) you should rarely need to apologise for that. Why did you need to do a lot of apologizing, I'm c
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The price seems to be the same except for tax. Germany has a 16% rate (July-Dec 2020) and Czechia 21% for sales tax/VAT.

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